Cheryl Dobbertin

Cheryl Becker Dobbertin is a member of the PBLWorks National Faculty and an educational consultant specializing in Project-Based Learning. She helps schools and districts design and implement Gold Standard PBL, from crafting compelling driving questions and authentic public products to building project-based assessments. Her work includes training teachers and leaders, leading collaborative planning days with teachers. developing multi-year K–12 PBL and assessment implementation plans with district leaders, and designing projects from high-quality instructional materials. She also supports schools in ELA and adolescent literacy, the Science of Reading, writing, standards-based grading, and understanding and implementing NY Inspires. Before launching her consultancy in 2023, she served as Director of Secondary Education for the East Irondequoit Central School District, a middle school building leader, a K-12 professional development specialist and director, and high school ELA teacher. Cheryl is the author of Common Core, Unit by Unit: 5 Critical Moves for Implementing the Reading Standards Across the Curriculum (Heinemann, 2013) and a co-author, with Ron Berger, Libby Woodfin, and Suzanne Nathan Plaut, of EL Education’s Transformational Literacy: Making the Common Core Shift with Work That Matters (Wiley, 2014). Her articles have appeared in Educational Leadership, Education Week, and MiddleWeb.